Designing things : a critical introduction to the culture of objects /
Boradkar, Prasad.
Designing things : a critical introduction to the culture of objects / Prasad Boradkar. - English ed. - New York : Berg, 2010. - vii, 326 p. : illus. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Theorizing things: disciplinary diversity in thinking about objects -- Valued possessions: the worth of things -- Making things: labor in production -- Producing things: a history of systems of manufacture -- Beautiful things: the aesthetics of surfaces -- The greed imperative: user needs in product design -- Planned obsolescence: unsustainable consumption -- Objects as signs: what do things mean? -- The obsession of possession: fetish objects.
Designing Things provides the reader with a map of the rapidly changing field of design studies, a subject which now draws on a diverse range of theories and methodologies - from philosophy and visual culture, to anthropology and material culture, to media and cultural studies.
9781845204266 (cloth) 9781845204273 (pbk.)
2010005520
Consumer goods--Psychological aspects.
Consumer goods--Social aspects.
Design--Philosophy.
Design--Social aspects.
NK 1505 / B67 2010
745.401
Designing things : a critical introduction to the culture of objects / Prasad Boradkar. - English ed. - New York : Berg, 2010. - vii, 326 p. : illus. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Theorizing things: disciplinary diversity in thinking about objects -- Valued possessions: the worth of things -- Making things: labor in production -- Producing things: a history of systems of manufacture -- Beautiful things: the aesthetics of surfaces -- The greed imperative: user needs in product design -- Planned obsolescence: unsustainable consumption -- Objects as signs: what do things mean? -- The obsession of possession: fetish objects.
Designing Things provides the reader with a map of the rapidly changing field of design studies, a subject which now draws on a diverse range of theories and methodologies - from philosophy and visual culture, to anthropology and material culture, to media and cultural studies.
9781845204266 (cloth) 9781845204273 (pbk.)
2010005520
Consumer goods--Psychological aspects.
Consumer goods--Social aspects.
Design--Philosophy.
Design--Social aspects.
NK 1505 / B67 2010
745.401